Click here for details of my challenge! IT'S MY FINAL DAY!! Yes, I started the day with only 40 km to go. I didn't rush it given I was recovering from last night's revelry at The Plough. However, well before lunchtime I was saddled up and raring to go. Mike decided to...

Click here for details of my challenge! It was so great to be starting the day with only double figures to go. Even better than that, once today's 40 km was done I'd halved the outstanding distance from 80 km to just the final 40 km. Result! Mike was working from home...

Click here for details of my challenge! A early start to the day meant I had completed my 40 km before lunch. Talking of lunch I followed the 40 km up with a very pleasant foliage heavy repast. I must say I still find kale an acquired taste but at least it makes the...

Click here for details of my challenge! An urgent job disrupted my plans for an early start and thus an early finish for today's 40 km. Since I'd decided not to eat until I'd duly completed today's quota of kilometres I was feeling more than a little peckish by the...

Click here for details of my challenge! Doing what I do best this morning ... geeking out! This time it involved MacGyvering a cross platform solution for managing text notes. An application for the Mac called nvAlt was duly installed and configured before I realised...

Click here for details of my challenge! A good start to my day when I finished all 40 km before doing anything else! I think my incentive to complete the bike duty was avoiding the search for a transcription solution. I thought transcription was dead given we can...

Click here for details of my challenge! Porridge! Who invented porridge? While I can just about stomach it, calling it food is a reach. The worst thing with it is the griping hunger it causes within 90 minutes of eating it. I'm sure I'm less hungry if I don't bother...

Click here for details of my challenge! Today was an early start at MacBites HQ. Mike headed off to a local cross country running tournament, never fear though as you'll doubtless be pleased to hear he wasn't participating but merely stewarding. In even better news I...

Click here for details of my challenge! My usual routine was thrown asunder as Mike was working from home today, creating video lessons. This meant no audible signs of exhaustion from me were permissible when I returned from my first early 20 km session. No worries...

Click here for details of my challenge! Never let it be said it's dull when I leave the house. Today's excitement? I only went out for 5 minutes and what was I greeted with in the car park? A car emblazoned with a rather interesting URL on the side! Yes, you read that...

Click here for details of my challenge! An early start for today's 40 km. After yesterday's accompaniment (One Direction if you recall ... and to be honest who could forget? 😱) I decided to terminate/kill Spotify's ability to enforce its suggestions on my tender ears....

Click here for details of my challenge! I awoke to snow! Yay, I love snow but sadly it was replaced with rain in seconds. Great, just what we need, more freezing wind replete with lashing rain 👿 Today's 40 km was completed to the dulcet tone of One Direction ... don't...

Click here for details of my challenge! I am still recovering from the excesses of last week. I made the mistake of checking my calendar for this week in the vain hope of some respite from the recent excesses ... no chance! Highlights of the upcoming week include:...

Click here for details of my challenge! We were up alarmingly early this morning ready for Mass and for once, very unusually, we had nothing planned after tea at the Parish Centre but that won't last as Fr Ned has raffle tickets in his sights ... AGAIN! Yes, Mike and...

Click here for details of my challenge! It was another morning after another night before. Well when I say night it was actually 3:50am if you recall the decadent night we spent at a wine tasting followed by partying the night away. Despite all that one of us was up...

Click here for details of my challenge! The morning after the night before ... still as great in hindsight but some sleep might have been a good idea as I struggled to focus on the bike this morning! I somehow managed to complete the entire 40 km by lunchtime which...

Click here for details of my challenge! Still basking in the warm glow of last night's Evening with Eric Cantona I was on the bike at stupid o'clock, no seriously it was before 7:30am and I am so not a morning person! Still it was amazingly liberating to be done...

Click here for details of my challenge! It's a huge day at MacBites HQ today ... we have VIP tickets for An Evening with Eric Cantona at The Lowry Theatre in Salford. Yes, the same Lowry Theatre that was witness to my Old Trafford yomp last week. We've had the tickets...

Click here for details of my challenge! I seemed to spend the entire day attempting to get ahead of myself before an even busier second half of the week. Futile! Completely futile! I completed today's 40 km around noon as I contemplated the joys of more foliage for...

Click here for details of my challenge! I think I might have overdone it slightly! I was exhausted today before I started on my 40 km. By the time I'd finished it I decided a short snooze was in order but before I managed to sneak off for a crafty nap disaster struck!...

Click here for details of my challenge! No chance for an early start to my biking today as 9:30am Mass was calling as was our usual repast in the Parish Centre afterwards. We had then arranged a social visit to a housebound parishioner so it was after 1pm before I got...

Click here for details of my challenge! After yesterday's 24 hour stand I somehow managed another 12 hour stand by 11am! While that looks incredibly impressive just don't ask how the sleep monitoring is going! (Hint: it's not!) I did manage to sleep for a short while...

Click here for details of my challenge! Those familiar with the Apple Watch and associated Health App will know what I mean by "Stand Hours" but for those blessed folk, ignorant of such torture, let me explain. A "Stand Hour" is an hour of the day during which you...

Click here for details of my challenge! Done by lunch for 4th day in a row ... going for the full working week tomorrow! The activity rings on my AppleWatch can barely keep up! Well that's what I'm claiming anyway 😉 Anyway, after such an early finish and a full...

Click here for details of my challenge! Unbelievably, for me, today marked a hat-trick! 3 days with 40 km done by lunchtime. This was followed by a day full of online training delivery and conference calls so my step count took a bit of a hit. I did attempt to counter...

Click here for details of my challenge! It's a a big day today ... I'm half way there! The power of an early start was at play again. I started even earlier and was all done by 11am. Before you think madness had struck there was a reason for this. I had a lunch with...

Click here for details of my challenge! I was playing catchup today after a busy weekend. First task of the day was tech related though, naturally 😉 After years of languishing on a screen that far back on my iPhone even I didn't know where it was I moved the Facebook...

Click here for details of my challenge! Eucharistic duty completed without incident! Despite horror stories of all kinds of disaster from our recent training day fresh in my mind. It was a close thing though ... As I approached the front pew my eyes alighted on a...

Click here for details of my challenge! With the single exception of tech toys I'm not keen on any kind of shopping but the absolutely worst kind of shopping is shoe shopping. Hence, The Lowry Outlet Mall is a very scary place for me to venture into since it's...

Click here for details of my challenge! The weekend starts here! Well it does when Mike is working from home on a Friday 😀 Sadly, I wasn't spending the day in the usual comfort of my office as I had a client visit planned. The knock on effect of this was I was late...

Click here for details of my challenge! The great lettuce hunt continues! I am receiving updates from all over the country from my online friends assuring me that they are doing far better than I am in the lesser spotted lettuce hunt. Never mind the lettuce though....

Click here for details of my challenge! After the high of yesterday being signed off from the dentist after almost two years of treatment I didn't think it could get any better. But today it did! Today I received my before and after photos from my dentist. O.M.G. I...

Click here for details of my challenge! Guess what my first appointment of the day was? Need a clue? Where do I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time? Apart from in front of my beloved computers, obviously! Yes, I was back at the dentist today ... AGAIN 😉 But...

Click here for details of my challenge! The start of another week of #ASRF4050 and I was facing a hugely busy day. This didn't start well given I had to be up at stupid o'clock to take the car in for its MOT. The car needed defrosting. Average for early February you...

Click here for details of my challenge! The excesses of last night's dinner meant there was no way I was able face a breakfast as hearty as yesterday. I raided the copiously stocked breakfast bar and returned with a banana and a glass of water. I know, last of the...

Click here for details of my challenge! The day started with the morning after the rather late night before. I think dancing until 1am took its toll, in a VERY big way. I awoke to vague recollections of a rather alarming suggestion. As I regained consciousness I...

Click here for details of my challenge! The weekend started here! And what a fabulous day it was, if you discount the need to get up extra early to complete 40 km at breakneck speed so we could head off to Alvaston Hall Hotel early for the duration. On a tech related...

Click here for details of my challenge! There are some things that you just couldn’t make up and today was full of them! After the world-wide shortage of courgettes (zucchini) of a few days ago it now seems that lettuce, in fact all things salad related, are now in...

Click here for details of my challenge! Day 12 and I'm still alive ... quite an achievement! Almost better than that I've had two invitations out to lunch. Both most welcomely contemplated as I nibbled my way through a rather light lunch of grapes and nuts...

Click here for details of my challenge! Today was the end of January. Whilst that's not normally something worthy of a celebration, it most certainly is if you've: Been exceptionally diligent in the health and fitness department Have an Apple Watch Yes, hot on the...

Click here for details of my challenge! Back to work again today and I'll admit to a certain level of exhaustion. Now before you think it's the cycling I can assure you it was much more likely the time it took to load the goodies into the fridge last night! Again it...

Click here for details of my challenge! How on earth is it shopping day again? It only seems like yesterday we dragged half the salad aisle back home and yet here we are again. After the success of all things lettuce related last week there was much greenery evident...

Click here for details of my challenge! I have no fondness for early mornings as regular readers will know! However, a three-line whip from the Bishop was in force today so I was dutifully up at stupid o'clock to attend a compulsory training session for Extraordinary...

Click here for details of my challenge! I made the mistake of having a late night last night. In my defence there was a good reason for such decadence. It was because I was waiting for midnight come round to have a listen of the new Train album in its entirety as soon...

Click here for details of my challenge! Thursday is video production day for me and this week it was a short how-to for Mac users looking to create a boot disk for macOS Sierra. I managed to get it recorded before attempting today's 40km as I figured the gasping...

Click here for details of my challenge! Hit the 200 km (125 miles) mark today - 10% of the way there! My speed today wasn't helped by the cold weather. I can only assume the peddles were frozen solid. It certainly felt like they were! Anyway, having worked up an...

Click here for details of my challenge! Day 4 already! My day started with a 2 hour dentist appointment at 8:30am ... oh boy do I know how to live! I briefly considered asking for some of the anaesthetic "to-go" to ease my aching legs but given the effect on my lips I...

Click here for details of my challenge! Day 3 was my first working day of #ASRF4050 and trying to find the time to fit in 40 km was going to require some creative time management! It was one of my favourite mobile apps that came to the rescue in the shape of Audible....

Click here for details of my challenge! As I mentioned Sunday is shopping day at MacBites HQ, not my favourite activity I can assure you. Luckily I was able to put it off until almost lunchtime as Mass was first, followed by our traditional cup of black tea in the...

Click here for details of my challenge! Well the great day arrived and I did it! The first 40km are in the bag. How did it go I hear you ask: well while the saddle sores are not a problem (YET!) my feet ache like crazy. Better footwear is clearly required. My Apple...